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In response to Jerry Becker's (2007) post "Richard Hake: On the Mazur
Article" to the "mathed-news" and "ncsm-members" lists, a subscriber
wrote to Becker and me privately:
"Professor Mazur's comment about assigning the reading first and then
discussing it in the next class reminded me of an anecdote when I was
researching Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory. . . . . .
.[<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pask <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pask>]. . . . A student of
Pask's was now a professor and for his class he assigned the weekly
reading. When the students came to class he asked if they had done
the reading. Then he asked if there were any questions. The students
sat there quietly, so the professor said 'well then, class
dismissed.' Supposedly the class became more interactive the next
meeting."
According to the account by Paul Halmos (1988, pages 255-265) this
method of initiating a class was one of the hallmarks of the the
"Moore Method" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_method <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_method>>, pioneered
by the topologist R.L. Moore
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.L._Moore <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.L._Moore>> at the University of Texas.
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